Community Agreement / Usage Policy

Community Agreement / Usage Policy

MakatiCity.com is a local online, social gathering place for neighbors in the Makati, Philippines area.

This community welcomes and encourages:

Open and honest dialogue.

A friendly, safe and welcoming atmosphere.

People giving each other the benefit of the doubt, especially with controversial or emotional topics.

A Couple Guidelines:

No insults or name calling directed at other members. Avoid personal attacks or character attacks on other members.

If many people might interpret a message or picture as racist, bigoted, homophobic or sexist, please don't post it. This is a quick way to get banned.

Don't pretend to be someone else, or post under several usernames.

Privacy / Anonymity: Never post personal information (real name, address, work place, physical description, email address, family status, etc.) that would betray the anonymity of another member without permission, either publicly or in private messages. We can only enforce your anonymity/privacy if you are careful about giving out your information publicly. If you think someone has violated your privacy / anonymity, please contact an Admin ASAP. Don't repost private messages on the forums. Forward PMs to an Admin if they are breaking rules.

No business solicitations, advertisements, spam or business self promotion on the forums. Honest reviews of local companies by independent third parties are welcome, although we will sometimes remove criticisms of our official website sponsors.

The "Ignore" feature is meant to reduce conflict. If you have someone on ignore or that person has you on ignore, please refrain from talking to or about that person.

Moderators typically delete the following types of threads: swan song posts, posts about ignoring or being ignored by someone, new threads dedicated to criticizing another member, posts advocating for dubious medical treatments, posts about being banned or quitting the site, posts about one race bad or being better/worse than average in some way, critiques of moderating (take it to PMs please), posts mentioning other forums or community web sites or Facebook groups, any referral or affiliate links.

If someone is breaking the rules, please flag it and let a moderator step in. Avoid taking things "into your own hands".

No chronic unfriendly behavior allowed: members who habitually demean, criticize, or mock other members, or otherwise encourage a hostile environment on the forums will have their account closed.

If two members argue repeatedly with each other, an Admin may put them on "Forced Ignore".

Rules concerning racism, bigotry, sexism, anonymity, business solicitations also apply to private messages. Violations of these specific rules could get your account banned even if they are limited to occurring in private messages only.

Additional Moderating Guidelines:

MakatiCity.com is a privately owned web site and our forums are
a private online social group, which means we can and do restrict certain conversations
on the forums to maintain a civil atmosphere for everyone. We do this with the goal of keeping MakatiCity.com a friendly and inviting place for most residents of Makati.
Just like you couldn't curse at church, or use racial slurs at Disney World without getting
kicked out; we have set certain reasonable limits on MakatiCity.com members in order
to participate here. The Internet is a big place, and there are many web sites where all types
of controversial and inflammatory discussions are allowed, but MakatiCity.com is not one of them.

This local online community is not a good forum for overt preaching or for religious debate. It's also not a place
to attack, criticize or critique other religions or religious groups.
This goes the same for all religions: Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, etc., all alike.

These forums are not a place to for Atheists and non-Atheists to debate if there is or is not a God.

You can express your beliefs in God or in Atheism here, as long as you're careful not to
attack or belittle the religious beliefs (or non-belief) of others while doing it.

Religion and Atheism can be a difficult topics to discuss in an anonymous online forum,
and we believe there are other forums better suited for this type of discussion.